how did my hubs get posted on a site that i was not aware of

while going through google buzz i found that my hubs are posted on a site called 68Articles.comdoes anyone know anything about this site? i did not post my hubs there nor did i give any permission to do so. in fact, i wasn't even aware of teh site.does anyone know how they would've gotten access to my hubs?

thanks Website Examiner. I had no idea...i am completely blown away by this. just happened to stumble upon it when i was going through my google buzz stuff today. i'd hate to think what would've happened had i not seen it. glad i could warn my fellow hubbers.this is definitely getting reported.

I just checked the website 68 articles.com a few minutes ago. And as suggested by Tina, put my name in the search box. Sure enough I had found three articles that I had written about astronomy on the first page. I do not know if this is a good or a bad thing? All I know is that I will keep writing for hubpages in between my regular job, because I love to write. It is still a bit bothersome considering I have only been with Hubpages a little more than 2mos.s, but we know that they are not to blame for this.

30 of my hubs were on there, I tried to file a complaint but had trouble with the fill out, site seems to be down at the moment which is good..I am relying on other peoples complaints to save me at the moment lol

So as your suggested response, made earlier to Tina, it is probably worth the extra trouble to report the complaint, to either Google or 68articles? Thanks for all of the feedback in reference to this issue.

To anyone in this thread who has posted a link to the site or has replied to a post and included the link, PLEASE go back and edit your post and take out the http:// or add a space (ht tp://) so that it's not a live link. All you're doing is helping the perpetrators by giving them a backlink. That's a really good way to ensure that their copies of your material rank more highly than your originals in the search engines.

This site has apparently just scraped a LOT of content from Hubpages and re-published it.

At least as far as my copied hubs are concerned, the copies have not yet been indexed on Google or Yahoo (i.e. searching for exact phrases from my hubs, inside quotation marks, does not show results from this domain)

The site uses Adsense, and I have reported them for violating my copyright.

You should do the same if your hubs have been copied: Just go to a page that has Adsense and click the "Ads by Google" link in the lower right corner (this does NOT count as clicking the ad, so don't worry!) On the resulting page there is a checkbox that indicates that the site is violating your copyright. Tick that box and leave a comment in the text area below, if you like.

You can also fill out DMCA complaints, but having this dirtbag's Adsense account canceled for rampant violations will probably do more to discourage this outrageous level of theft!

Can someone please post to this thread if they actually report their copied hubs to Google. I tried to report mine and had a few problems

1. It wants me to list all the violations, I have over 100 hubs that have been copied, I really don't want to list all the URLs and the violating URLs.

2. I did a lower right corner click and it told me not to use that form, but submit a DMCA, I tried to submit the DMCA and it won't take it and has a very strange error message that I'm sure is not from Google.

The text on the reporting page says you don't "have to" fill out that form, but can instead file a DMCA request. As the violation is site-wide and involves thousands of hubs, I simply reported the whole site to Adsense for copyright infringement. Filing separate DMCA's is also an option.

FYI, I also emailed the HubPages team, so we'll see what action they take - since this affects a great deal of their content and 68articles is literally trying to steal HubPages' traffic, HP should take action to protect the site as a whole, IMHO...

I didn't use it - a theft of this scale does not merit a polite email from me wagging my finger at someone as if he had copied a single hub out of ignorance. This is blatant and intentional theft-for-profit, and the only recourse (IMHO) is the swift cancellation of his Adsense account by Google.

Nice work clark farley and thanks for going public with this info. We hubbers need good detective work like this and by all means letting other hubbers know so we can get these horse thieves stopped as soon as they have been spotted.

A special category thread should be dedicated for reporting copyright violators or violated websites

links disabled so they don't get a back link like someone mentioned here.

Melbel, search for your name using their "author name" feature, and make sure to click the submit button - do not press enter after entering your name. I found 11 of your hubs on the first page - subsequent pages are blank, just as they are when I search for my own name.

Well, you can add Wilderness to the list - 5 of my hubs are on the site.

I used the method suggested by Edweirdo to notify Google - this seems the best outside of filing individual DMCA complaints. It doesn't look to me like any single individual doing this, but likely site wide involving management. Better that they simply be shut down rather than trying to get them to remove stolen content.

I couldn't find any indication that any of their "featured authors" have written anything at all - rather it seems to be nothing but scraped content.

Nothing seems cached yet, as has been pointed out, yet the publication dates given for my own content dates back to January. Seems a little odd...

Yeah, I hit enter, it's a natural thing for me I guess. Poor design on his part.

Okay, so I went to file a DMCA through Google and upon hitting submit I got this, which is the strangest thing I've ever seen from Google. I tried to search and see if anyone else is having this problem, but to no avail:

I just did this - seemed easy enough - just clicked on the google ads icon on the site and it took me to a form - I selected that I wanted to report a problem with the site & ticked the box that they took my stuff & added some additional info. Hopefully, if they get a pile of them, they will take action to disable their account quickly.

If you are trying to submit a DMCA complaint, don't do it via Google! They do not host the site in question.

File your DMCA with the host in sunforged's post - they are the only ones who can do anything about it! Google doesn't own the Internet(despite all appearances to the contrary ) and all they can do is go after the guys Adsense account and/or de-index the site from their listings.

Wow this is disgusting. Like Edweirdo said I think the best way to shut them down is get their Adsense banned. If they don't make any money doing this type of thing it will stop, otherwise they will just make another page if this one is closed.

E-mailed them a business like demand to delete 'authors' articles a couple of hours ago. Gave them till 4-1-2011 12:00P.M. est or a complaint would be made with Google Adsense and other pertinent institutions for copyright infringement. We'll see what happens.

Didn't read the whole thread but I find using the report site to google helpful as well as DCMA. I did this fairly recently and the offending site was deindexed from google's search results within 48 hours. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools … &pli=1

Hey all, I just wanted to Post my thanks to a certain Ms. AKH who works with me on the Wakefield Doctrine-related Hubs here at my hub that she Posted her alert rom.(She is my 'analytic side') and it was Ms AKH that uncovered the scraping that started this little brouhaha...I was not aware of every place that the Wakefield Doctrine was being used to make money for someone who either could not be bothered or simply lacked the talent/industry to create content.

Forums are glorified chat boxes, legal and professional actions require documented actions. The only use of a forum ina situation like this would be to generate bad PR to force a companies hand - that isnt possible in this situation.

In the time it takes to make a forum post you can file the necessary documents and move along.

I've just been along to the stie again and it seems to still be up.All my Hubs still there. I will keep going back to check (though I hate to give Mr 68 this kind of traffic!).Should I report each article again, or would that be overkill?I just love the sub-title of the site: "Intelligent life on the web!" I guess that "intelligent life" is us Hubfolk!

I typed in my name and found that my articles are on there too. Isn't there a measure of security within Hubpages to protect an author's work from this?

This is a disgusting way to perform plagiarism. My stomach is turning seeing other people's content exploited. I am trying to stay on the positive side of this. Maybe it is just a linked search and will loop to Hubpages? Nope. I just tried it. It comes up in their website window.

Although, they do credit Hubpages with the content, they do not credit the page it came from or even state that this is not their websites work.

If you read the thread from beginning, you will (1) get answers to your previous questions; (2) see that shortly after I posted at the start of the thread, I was informed that one of my hubs had also been found on the offending site.

Hey I just went to the sixtyeight site and there is a notice up that they are temporarily out of service.

btw the address of the notice:ht..tp://box569.bluehost.com/suspended.page/disabled.cgi/68articles.com

I suppose they are just getting everything together to pay us (collectively) for the adsense money they may have received prior to Ms AKH catching them in the act... lol

Which make me think twice about posting content here at Hub Pages, if there is no chance of security...Somehow I don't feel as bad if someone scrapes content off my own blog, I have myself to account to, but the people behind Hub Pages are benefiting from all members contributions (as is the agreement).

Perhaps some assurance from 'the house' that there is not an open door on the content here...

[4:44:47 PM] unfortunately someone with a bluehost has been 'scraping' content off a site that I contribute content to...HUb Pages[4:45:06 PM] his site is down now:[4:45:12 PM] http://box569.bluehost.com/suspended.pa … ticles.com[4:45:41 PM] I was hoping that you do something bad to this individual for stealing my contentCam: [4:46:06 PM] you can submit a request of this nature to the terms of service department.[4:46:09 PM] chat here - http://tinyurl.com/4ezbwqf[4:46:13 PM] ticket here - http://www.bluehost.com/cgi/helpFIRST TIME SALE..: [4:47:51 PM] nah...he's just going to turn up somewhere else, but fyi the 'temp out of service' message for this person (showing bluehost as server) is posted at Hub Pages...can't be overly helpful for business...a lot of upset people over there...Cam: [4:50:12 PM] Was there anything else I can help you with

Probably me being old that made me think that the server would have a Customer Service Dept that at least pretended to be concerned.

Here's the reply to a strongly worded demand e-mailed to 68 articles:Hi! thank you for feed back to me-I will edit or remove articles and author-We really apologize for this problem-Please! don't report Google-sincerally thank-Team:68articles

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